Geo (Gio) Rutherford

One of my favorite extremophiles are the extremophiles that they study at Rio Tinto, which is the river in Spain

which is red and orange.

Like if you Google it, it's like one of the craziest looking rivers in the world.

And it's because they have mined copper there for like 2000 years.

And all of that mining runoff, all of that like toxic runoff has turned this river like neon orange and neon red.

And NASA has actually gone there to take samples to study extremophiles.

Cause it's like one of the strangest unique environments on earth.

That's kind of a human by-product.

So yeah,

There's tons of those that I think are just so fascinating.

Yeah, I mean, I think that a lot of the ones that I'm talked about are really hard to get to.

Like it is hard to get to Lake Natron in Tanzania.

I think a good example that would be easy to get to, but I have not been myself is Yellowstone.

Yellowstone is like a hotbed for strange wet environments, which are a result of this volcanic activity.

That was so funny because that wasn't even one of my official Spooky Lake videos, but I thought the topic was really interesting, so I just made it that night.

Right after making my Spooky Lake video on the Yellowstone, I made that video as a throwaway video, and it was more popular than the rest of the videos from that month.

But yeah, that was a geyser, which we threw so much trash into that we actually like changed the temperature of the water and that changed the color of it.

The thermophiles, which are like hot loving extremophiles, like shifted and changed.

And so that's a fascinating one as well.

Yeah, Old Man of the Crater Lake.